06) Differential Diagnosis

PLAN B

One should always have an approach to considering a broad differential in a case that you do not immediately recognize (PLAN A) One popular pneumonic is:

VIINNDDICATE

Normal/variant

Physics/artifact

Vascular

Infection/Inflammatory

Neoplasm, benign, malignant

Drugs/toxic

Degenerative

Iatrogenic

Congenital/developmental

Autoimmune/allergic

Trauma

Endocrine/metabolic